
114 ◾ Game Magic
performs all manner of tricks, including illusions. Figure4.10 is
the Juggler/Magician card from the Marseilles tarot deck. e
Juggler is playing with cups and balls, a toy-like form of stage illu-
sion akin to a shell game. Moreover, the contemporary graphic
novelist and occultist Alan Moore has gone so far as to embrace
illusion as the heart of magic because of its connection to imagi-
nation; Moore views his precursor, Alexander, as a magician pre-
cisely because his patron snake-god Glycon was actually a sock
puppet (Babcock). e line between occultist and stage magician
oen blurs in exciting ways that could be usef ...